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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
A Baby and a Gun.

Centrslis, Mo, March ia little two
year-old SON of John Boor, farmer re.
siding twelve miles north of this place,
was killed this morning un er the follow
ing distressing circumstances: Mrs. Boor
stepped out few minutes, leaving her
four children, whose ages range from to
8 years, alone IN the house. During her
absence one of the older children got hold
of shotgun loaded with buckshot, and be.
ing too small to comprehend the danger
pointed it at the little 3-year-old and
pulled the trigger, the charge passing
through the little fellows breast and rang
ing downward lodged in the wall. The
gun was so close to the child's body thai
the clothes were set on FIRE. The mother
is almost wild with grief.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
New Orleans State.

The Atlanta Constitution has been
discussing table etiquette and the
question, whether it is proper to carry
food to the mouth with a fork or q
knife. The Constitution has at last
stumbled on a subject that it can
handle intelligently. 1t knows a
great deal more about table etiquette
than the tariff and we hope that it will
be wise enough to cut loose from the
one and swing to the other.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
A Nevada Horror,

Nevada, Mo-, March Is The dead body
years old, was discovered this morning
by Joseph Thomas while at werk on Ped
don's farm, about four miles west, in the
northern part of this county. Appear
ances indicated foul play. There is a
bullet hole in the back of the head, and it
seems the party was shot while getting
under a wire fence. He was evidently
shot at close quarters, as the back of his
head is powder-burned. The description
corresponds with that of John Jones, who
lives short distance from where the body
was found. He had been at Camp Supply,
l. T., and was expected home about this
time.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
Big Blaze.

Buffalo, n. Y. March l5.-Fire in the
large building occupied by Millot, Grainer
& Co., resulted in $28o,OOO damages. The
Commercial Advertiser building was
slightly scorched.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
Later.

Boston, March l5.-Crowds have been
leaving the city to-day to visit the scene OF
yesterdays appalling wreck. There is not
much to be seen now, the debris having
been cleared away, but from eye witnesses
it is learned that the wreck is the most
horrible for many years.
A careful investigation of the casualties
attendant upon the terrible disaster on the
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
MARRIAGE GUIDE

<oo fHktas f1ne El81eS.
Eli CANT cloth and gilt binding. Sealed "a. 5ds
in IN iney or postage stamps. Over fifty wor;'--
ful pen pictures, showing who NAV marry rS,S
not, why. Proper ageto marry " no marry i.t.s
Manhood. WonanhOod. PHYSICAL decay. VIZ
should marry. How life and happiness nav -
increased. Those married or about Il marry
should read it: of interest and value to - c.-
thinking mar and woman. Pcpular rrttis B..
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
DIRECTORS.

We make specially OF managing trust
funds, and are always prepared to furnish
safe and profitable investments. Persons
having money to invest will find il to their
interest to call on us before investing else
whore. We always have money to loan On
real estate, on long or short terms, at low
rate without commission.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22

Kansas City News:
A Chicago man drank some water
from the Chicago river the other day
and died.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22

DO not snffer from sick headache q
moment longer. 1t is not necessary.
Carriers Little Liver Pills will cure yea.
Dose, one pill. All druggists sell them
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
MiSSOQriIrQSt Co.

Capital Paid Up 500, zoe
Surplus D,0W
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MOST OF THE CASUALTIES

were III cars so and u respectively the iourtI
fifth aud sixth ON the train, and the irst
second and third of those which went into
the chasm. Car "a lies in a heap al
splinters with sides and roof broken in
The stove did not break from It's fasteuings
but was broken above the CRATE. The ire,
however, was extinguished. Car No. sc
lies partly on car No. 81, unrOofed, aud
with every seat gone. Several Of the killed
and wounded persons were taken from
this car. The stove belonging TO this car
remained firmly fixed and no fire escaped
Car No. 81 is practically demolished
while car No. % lies almost intact upon
the ruins
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
RidicuIous indigenous.

Women especially will find food for
laughter in this tid-bit from the Rochester
On. W Herald:
\ Justice of the Peace in Saratoga
county recently joined pair who were 50
embarrassed that they hardly knew what
they were doing. The man wore white
straw hat, which he whirled on his finger
before the ceremony began. When told to
stand up he jumped before the Justice
ments he did not know what to do with
the hat, but found way out of the diff
Guilty by putting it between his knees.
This was too much for the bride With
the handle Of her parasol she caught the
hat, pulled it from its position, and then,
abashed at her audacity, dropped hat and
parasol to the floor.
The same Justice tells a story of another
couple who came to be married. The man
was dreadfully puzzled, and without real
ling the act pulled Il cigar out of his
pocket and began twirling it around.
When that portion of the ceremony was
reached where the bride and groom Join
hands he happened to have the cigar in
his right hand, What to do with the cigar
he apparently did not know The Justice
paused a minute, and then again directed
the pair to Join hands By this time the
poor fellows embarrassment was painful.
He gave one agonized look at the Justice
and stuck the cigar in his teeth Before
the ceremony could be concluded the JUS
tice had to take the cigar from between
the mans lips.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
Grant and Lee at Appomattox


General Horace Porter, who was an aid
Of General Grant, contributes to the No
vember Century an account of his last cam
paign, which is profusely illustrated. From
1t We quote rs follows:
The contrast between the two COM
manders was very striking, and could not
fail to attract marked attention, as they sat
ten feet apart facing each other General
Grant, then nearly 43 years of age, was
five feet eight inches in hight, with shout
ders slightly stopped. His hair and full
beard were 4 nut-brown, without a trace of
gray in them. lie had on a single-breasted
blouse, made Of dark-blue flannel, unbut-
toned i'll front, and showing a waistcoat
underneath. He wore an ordinary pair of
top-boots, with his trousers inside. and was
without spurs. The boots and portions of
his clothes We're spattered with mud. He
had had on q pair of thread gloves, Of a
dark yellow color, which he had taken of
ON entering the room. His felt sugar
loaf stlli-brlmmed hat was thrown on the
table beside him. He had no sword, and a
pair OF shoulder-straps was all there was
about him TO designate his rank In fact,
aside from these, his uniform was that of
a private soldier.
Lee, on the other hand, was fully six
feet in hight, and quite erect for one of his
age, for he was Grants senior by sixteen
years. His hair and full beard were a
silver gray, and quite thick except that the
hair had become a little thin in front. He
wore new uniform of Confederate gray.
buttoned up 10 the throat, and at his side
he carried Il long sword of exceedingly fine
workmanship, the hilt studded with Jew
els. 1t was said to he the sword which had
been presented to him bv the State of Nir-
ginia. His top-boots were comparatively
new, and seemed to have on them some or
namental stitching of red silk. Like his
uniform, they were singularlv clean and
little trayel-stained. On the boots were
handsome spurs, with large rowelS. i felt
hat, which in color matched pretty closely
that Of his uniform, and a pair of lone
bucksiin gauntlets lay beside him on the
table. We asked Colonel Marshall after
wards how it was that both he and his
chief wore such fine doggerv, and looked
so much rs if they had just turned out to
go to church, while with Us our outward
garb scarcely rose to the dignity even OF
the shabby genteel' He enlightened MS
regarding the contrast, by explaining that
when their headquarters wagons had been
pressed so closely by our cavalry a few
days before, and it was found they would
have to destroy all their baggage except
the clothes they carried on their backs,
each one, naturally, selected the newest
suit he had, and sought to propitiate the
gods OF destruction by 4 sacrifice of his sec
ond-best.n
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on Decoration Day Laughter They,
too, are ashamed of him, and they take 10
their wings and fly away. They won't
even blow anywhere about him. Great
laughter and cries of THAT'S So" All
nature is in revolt against him, and he
doesn't seem to know it and he doesn't
care, so the Solid South is assured that he
has no sympathy with these sentimental
practices that keep alive the recoliections
OF the war.
\ little thing, is ii, for the President Of
the United States to 90 fishing on Decora-
ton Day? No, it is not little thing
Applause. 1t is a shameful disgrace
that can not be excused, even 10 one who
hired a substitute; and just so surely as
he Is renominated in 1883 he GiH learn
the truth Of what | say. Applause !
And that is not all The people of this
great State will not wait until next year
to visit upon him directly their condem-
nation. They may not get chance at
him then. He may not be renominated
The Democratic party sometimes has spells
Of sanity. Laughter The people of
Ohio will make sure of their work by over
whelming with their ballots this year his
champion and defender and candidate,
Thomas E. Powell. Applause and cheers,
loud and long-continued.
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a Rat Catcher.

John Gregory, of New York, is a pro-
fessional rat catcher. lie recently cleared
Jay Gould's steam yacht Atlanta of rats
and was paid $400 for the job and has
made a contract to keep her clear of rats
| for 5000 a year.
He is employed by such men as Baldwin,
Lorrillard, Bonner and Dwyer to keep
their stables clear of rats. He is kept
busy, does his work well and makes money.
4 branch of his business was furnishing
the New York rat mains with live rodents,
when such sport was fashionable.
In clearing a stable, cellar or steamer of
rats he uses from five to ten ferrets, two
terriers and rat net. The dogs scent the
rat holes. Then the ferrets are put in the
| holes. The rats run from the ierrets to the
| holes, where they run into the nets. Some
| times she rat shows battle TO protect her
young, but a rat is no match for ferret
The ferrets only kill about one rat out of
ten. The rest of the rats run into the
nets and then the dogs kill them. A fer
ret catches rat by the throat, sucks its
blood and then leaves it. The ferrets de-
stroy all the nests and Young rats, but
after ferret has appeased its appetite it
is useless until it gets hungry again, and
for this reason are kept as hungry as pos
sible
1t costs large amount Of money to keep
up Il stock of ferrets for this business, as
they are lost in various ways, poisoning,
falling into well holes, getting killed by
dogs, etc Besides they are short-lived.
English Jack :" imports all his ferrets,
and pays SO to SIS each for them.-The
California Cdckter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29

A foreign diplomatist accredited at
Rome gives the following account of the
Pope's revenue and of the way in which it
Is spent. 1t is derived from three sources.
/. The interest of an enormous sum left
by Pic Mono to the pontifcal treasury and
invested in the English public funds This
interest amounts to about 100000 lire,
or about &l25,000. Leo NH. is a great
speculator, and subscribes to the Italian
loans in order to sell when the value rises
and invest the profits in the English con-
solidated fund. .. The proceeds of Peters
pence. This branch of the revenue has
suffered greatly in recent years, but never
thelesS, the average amounts to about
100000 lire or about eS3,000. These
two sums, which represent e2OS,000 per
annum, constitute the ordinary income of
his holiness. 1t is distributed by the
Chamberlain among the Cardinals resid-
ing in Rome-about 81 900 per annum for
each Cardinal-among the prelates of the
Pap3l Court, the Secretaries, the nunciOs,
the guards of the Pontiff's body, etc. g.
The extraordinary part of the Papal rev
enue is deprived from the receipts of the
apostolic chancery. The items include the
sums received for the titles of nobility,
Papal decorations, benedictions in the ar
ticle of death, privileges of the altar, pri-
waite chapels, dispensations, ecclesiastical
titles, and many other things. This de-
partment yields about 100000 lire, or
el04, 600 per annum. The wholeannual in
come of Leo XIII. therefore, reaches the
enormous sum Of about 10000 00-PaH
MaU Gazette.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
The Growing Snuth

Pig iron commands as good a price in
Chattanooga as II does III Philadelphia. n
condition of things hitherto unknown,
Since the South has been producer of pig
metal, until now, prices in the East have
ranged from 81 to 50 per ton higher than
iron was selling for III the South, the trans.
portation question entering into the calcu-
lation, which made the difference in price.
We were compelled to ship our iron away
IN order to find a market, but we are be-
ginning to see the dawn of a new era in
this country. This is the most pleasing
fact to those interested and alive to the
development of the South that has vet
been stated. When we begin to work up
the product Of our own furnaces, and to
utilize the products of our own
cotton fields, then we are on the
rapid road to wealth, and The lane is
not long one. This is the process by
which money is kept at home, and we will
not only be able to hold our own, but the
time is not far distant when we will hold
the other fellows. 1t is when this state OF
things shall have permanently taken place.
that every interest will begin to feel the
beneficial results, and the farmer perhaps.
more sensibly than any one else, for to his
lands it will add great value, while he
pockets the rate Of freight which it now
costs him to transport the products of his
soil to market A home market is the
basis of the wealth Of the tiller of the soil,
the foreign demand for his wheat corn and
cotton, in competition with the home de-
mand, keep prices stiff and enables him TO
derive profitable return from the yield OF
the soil=NashrWc American.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
THE NEGLECTED PATTERN.

weaver sat one day at his loom
Among the colors bright
Win the pattern for his copying
Hung fair and plain in sight
But the weaver's thoughts were wandering
Away on distant track
AS ne threw the shuttle in his hand
YEARLY forward and back.
And he turned his dim eyes to the ground.
And the tears fell on the wool
For his thoughts, alas were not with his home
Nor the wife beneath its roof
When her voice recalled him suddenly
To himself, a. she sadly said:
- An Woe Is me ! for your work is spoiled
And what viii we do for breadg'
And then the weaver looked and saw
His work must be undone;
For the threads were wrong, and the color.
dimned
Where the bitter tears had run.
"Alack alack p said the weaver,
" And this had all been right
II had not looked at my work, but kept
The pattern in my sight?'
All sad il was for the weaver,
And sau for his luckless wife;
And sad it win be for us if We say
At the end of our task in life,
The colors that we had to weave
Were bright in our early years;
But we wOve the tissue wrong and stained
The wool with bitter tears.
We wove a web OF doubt and fear
Not faith and hope and love,
Because we looked at our work, and not
At our Pattern up above -Phabe Cdru
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
BRIDE AND BURGLAR.
what n Frightened Lady Felt When She
Put Her Foot Out of Bed,


Here, from the Boston SATURDAY, Ereaiaq
Gazette, is little incident of the sort that
makes the goose-fesh creep:
\ young married lady whose face is IA
mlliar at the hospitals, charitable institu-
tions and the various art-rooms and pict
IRE galleries had, not long since. a singu-
lar experience. Her bedroom had LARGE
bay-window front and two ordinary win
dows on one side of the ROOM 1t was a
warm night, early III the season, and her
husband being absent she took the extra
precaution of fastening the blinds of the
long front windows by placing against them
q carpet hassock. On retiring she at once
fell asleep, but found herself suddenly
aroused and in an instant wide awake.
Wondering what had awakened her she sat
up IN bed and noticed that the blinds were
pushed apart and that it was early dawn.
She said, audibly, as if to herself "Why,
am sure | fastened those blinds ~ and.
making up her mind to fasten them and
have another nap, put her feet out of bed,
but instead Of touching the floor thew
rested on mans stomach Although
thoroughly frightened, while feeling the
quick beating of a heart beneath her feet.
she thought out what best to do. A chif-
loniere stood near by, and with a single
step she reached it, opened drawer and
took thereirom a little revolver-lately
won in a bet-which had never been
loaded. She cooked it and for the first
time looked at her intruder. He was a
colored man. She, being born and bred at
the South, was as indignant at that fact as
she was afraid. Pointing the pistol at
him, she said; Get up, YOU niger and
go out as yoI came in How dare you
enter a lady's room in this way?" He
moved toward the window, she pointing
the pistol toward him all the time, when,
her indignation increasing, she ordered
him to " sit down - rs he obeyeu he put
his hand behind him, and she, fearing a
razor might he forthcoming, said: Your
hand to the front or I'll blow your black
head OFF, She then gave him bit of adj
vice and ordered him "out of the window"
Feeling nervously unstrung by this time
she opened her door to 90 to her mothers
apartment, when, 10 and behold, there
stood another darkey! This was the "last
straw" and, yielding to womanly i'm
pulse, she screamed Murder, murder p
which brought her family and servants to
the hall, and number two made hasty
exit through the lady's room and out of
the open window. Valuable Jewels and
clothing were found in bundle under the
bed, but the rascals had taken nothing
from the house with them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29

Everybody knows about the trees, but |
shall risk boring YOU, my friend, rather
than be faithless to the genuine-hearted.
hoary-headed, rugged-(aced old pioneer
that showed me the east sections and ex-
patiated upon the wonderful woods. First
and biggest, a slice of the giant redwood.
the largest Of the famous grove in Gala
veras county; diameter, 33l feet; hight,
$50 feet; age, 300 years. This block is Is
feet in diameter, and was cut 100 feet from
the ground. The bark is two feet thick,
and in the midst of the block stands a
small tree of the same species, which looks
more like nothing that | have seen than
spruces. Thirty-two people waltz upon
the stump Of this marvel of the ages.
Other slices, small in comparison to this
recumbent monster, stand propped up
against the railing. Your correspondent
possesses an inch or two advantage over
most people, but might by no tip-toeing
means see over them.
Beautiful exceedingly are the woods of
Santa Cruz. Marble-liie laurel root, rich
red manzanita, burl redwood, madl one,
and many, many more. Here Is huge
plank Of common California redwood. six
feet three inches wide, fifteen feet long,
from Los Angeles. An oddly perforated
log bears its own printed story. The regu-
lar big thimble-holes are made by the
speculative woodpecker Then he flies off
in search Of 4 suitably sized acorn, which
he forces point foremost into the hole.
During the winter a grub matches in the
acorn. Woodpecler dimes off grub. See ?
They call the log the woodpecler store
house" Two redwood railway ties are
also shown, the first put down at the Cali
fornia end of the Central Pacific railroad,
as solid to all appearance as the day they
creaked under the first locomotive of the
line. You are ALL nhappily familiar with
the elder bush whereof the small boy of
the north constructs his whistle Here is
a section of its California attainments that
it would take twelve men to lift.-GartFs
-New Orleans Letter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
THE MAN WITH THE MUsKET.

They are building as Babel was built, to the sky,
with clash and confusion of speech;
lhey are piling up monuments massive and
To lift a few names out of reach
ana the passionate green-laureied god OF the
great,
In whimsical riddle of stone,
Has chosen few from the Field and the State
10 SIT On the steps of MS throne,
But II viii pass from this age of renown,
This ant-hin, cGmmotiOn and strife,
Pass by where the marbles and bronzes look
down
With their fast frozen gestures of life,
On, out to the nameless who lie meath the
Of the plying cypress and pine;
-FOUR man IS the man Of the sword and the
plume,
But the man with the musket is mine.
I knew him BY all that is noble, I knew
- his commonplace hero name
We camped with him, marched with him,
fought with him, too,
In the swirl Of the fierce battlehamei
Laughed with him, cried with him, taken part
OF his canteen and blanket, and known
That the thro5 Of this chivalrous prairie boy 5
heart
Was an answering stroke Of my own
knew him. I tell you And, also, knew
49, when he fell on the battle-swept ridge,
That the poor battered BOY that lay there in blue
Was o1ly plank in the bridge
Over which some should pass to a fame
That shan shine while the high stars shall
shine
Your hero is known by an echoing name,
But the man Of the musket is mine.
knew him All through him the good and
the bad
Ran together and equally free;
But Judged as I trust Christ has judged the
poor lad,
For death made him noble to me
IN the cyclone Of war, in the battles ccliuse,
Lie shook ont its lingering sands,
q Frifl iFE.r hat h.
his lips,
His musket still grasped in his hands
Up close to the flag my soldier went down.
In the salient front of the line;
1ou may take for your heroes the men of re-
But the man Of the musket is mine.
There is peace in the May-ladeued grace of the
hours
That come when the days work is done:
And peace with the nameless who under the
flowers,
Lie asleep in the slant of the sun.
Beat the taps Put out lights and silence all
sound
., There is rife-pit strength in the grave!
They sleep well who sleep, be they crowned or
uucrOwned,
And Death will be kind to the brave
Old comrades of mine by the fast waning years
That move TO mOrtaIitys goal.
By my heart full of love and my eyes full of
tears,
I hold you all fast in my soul
And march with the May, and its bloss0my
charms
tenderly lay on this sod.
And pray they may rest there, old comrades
il arms,
Like a kiss of forgiveness from God,
-Rer II. S Tdg'or.